Ban on Typepad in China

Blogsite turned black as a protest. This shows not only that the law is slow to interpret new technologies but also how law enforcement officials through their genious moves help popularize technology to folks who have no idea of the technology in the first place. This is a great publicity for Typepad. Plays right into the rebellious undercurrent of blogging culture.

My expression, my voice as reflected in my blog !

Phhut @#$#$ you cant have unchecked expression ! - not in my China.

Welcome to the world of state-sponsored media governance where this draconian monitoring would be enforced at the micro-content publisher level. Since micro-content monitoring is hard to do so why not just ban the whole service altogether - Strange logic.